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Ye-rin
Ye-rin Ye-rin (藝璘, artistic jade-brilliance) names a character whose gifts are aesthetic — someone for whom the world is most fully experienced through art, music, or dance, whose inner life is organized around form and sensation. The jade-brilliance meaning gives the name a quality of inner luminosity: like jade, Ye-rin characters may not announce their quality but reflect light beautifully when held in the right light. The name suits protagonists in contemporary Korean fiction about the performing arts.
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